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Last week, for the 18th consecutive year, Hoover, Alabama hosted the Southeastern Conference Baseball tournament, featuring the top-12 baseball teams from the SEC. It is a great event — family-friendly, inexpensive and well-attended. Besides watching college baseball, there are all kinds of things to do for kids [ . . read more . . ]

THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF POLL will look vastly different tonight, when the new poll is released. A stunning loss by Auburn, and losses by Kansas State and Michigan State all but eliminated those teams from the playoff party. Among the Power 5, only Florida State, a 34-20 winner over Virginia, and Mississippi State who beat [ . . read more . . ]

BUCKLE YOUR SEAT BELT, as we depart on what should be a wild ride. At least three Top-25 teams will find the loss column for the first time on Saturday. Looking into my crystal ball I see a total of five Top-25 teams that will taste defeat! The SEC Western Division will take center stage as six nationally ranked teams meet in three [ . . read more . . ]

COMMODORES AND MIDSHIPMEN CONQUER ALLOTMENTS According to Cornhusker fans, Nebraska has one of the most loyal and best traveling fan bases. Fans of Big Red might be surprised to find out that for each of the last three years Vanderbilt, a school with fewer than 12,000 students and less football tradition, has sold at least three times [ . . read more . . ]

BY MICHAEL LEESE What a weekend it was in the college football world. If you’re a fan, you had to take a deep exhale after watching all the good football over the weekend. Drama, fantastic finishes, coaching blunders, and phenomenal plays were all on display! The following is a recap of what I saw take place and what I see could [ . . read more . . ]

What a week it was! Six of the 10 top-ranked teams lost, changing the projected orders of finish in just about every conference. Here are this week’s expert picks, followed by some commentary, and our first bowl selection of the year. BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Alabama vs. Florida State – Mark Schlabach Alabama vs. [ . . read more . . ]

Every Monday, we gather bowl projections from the web and publish them in one list. Starting next week, we’ll also offer a bowl projection of our own, that will be something that we think you haven’t heard of, and it may seem crazy at first. But we’ll explain how it happens,and why it’s a possibility. We [ . . read more . . ]

After seven consecutive national championships, the Southeastern Conference is the standard to which every other conference is compared to in the world of college football. The Atlantic Coast Conference may have to deal with those comparisons more so than any other conference in the country due to several of its members being in close [ . . read more . . ]

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This past weekend I traveled to Clemson, South Carolina and took in the Wake Forest vs. Clemson game. I had agreat time, and learned a lot about the history and traditions of Clemson football. [ . . read more . . ]